Exchange Square

Built in the early 1990’s as part of the redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station Exchange Square has always felt to me like a space designed to pay homage to Capitalism. The tablet of stone (below) once touched by bankers, gives them unrivalled powers to rob money from the rest of us. The curvaceous sculptural steel architecture hints at a menacing alien spaceship which has brought privileged knowledge about quantitative easing and Armageddon Hedge Funds. Possibly I was left with these feelings after a security guard told me I needed ‘written permission’ to take photographs on the square as it was private property.

Exchange Square. City of London, 1993

Exchange Square. City of London, 1993

View from Exchange Square. City of London, 1993